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Part I — Society of Writers honours Sri Chinmoy at the United Nations

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• The golden Flute
• American freedom in my poetry

Part II — Poetry-poem-poet

• Poetry and prose
• 6. The universe
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Part III — Twenty-five poems

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Part IV — Aphorisms and poems about poetry

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• 38. What I have discovered
• 39. The dance of life
• 40. The song of beauty
• 41. Because you save me
• 42. Imagination and reason
• 43. A dream-poet
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• 48. Arise! Awake!
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Part V — Answers to questions on poetry

• 57. Question: Is there an inner world where poetry originates?
• 58. Question: How can one determine whether his poetry comes from the soul's inspiration rather than from the workings of the ordinary mind?
• 59. Question: What is the difference between a poem that comes from the higher vital world and a poem that comes from the illumined mental world?
• 60. Question: Does a spiritual Master get his creative inspiration in a different way from that of an ordinary person?
• 61. Question: I understand you wrote 843 poems in one day. Why do you write so many poems?
• 62. Question: Do you feel that if you wrote perhaps a few less, you might reach an even higher standard of poetic quality?
• 63. Question: Can an advanced soul who tries to reveal the higher truths be compared in some ways to a poet who tries to express and reveal artistic truths?
• 64. Question: How do we know which talent to develop if we have more than one artistic tendency?
• 65. Question: If we would like to write poetry but we lose our inspiration, how can we regain that inspiration? Should we just force it?
• 66. The song of beauty